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And…did I mention there are telepathic Trolls that can see into a person’s mind and weaponize their secret fears against them?

(These appear mostly in Books 1 & 2)

And there are pirates…yes, ships and the smuggling of contraband and sea-borne battles of wooden and metal reinforced clipper-ships that ply the great sound of Lake Cascale, a mountains chain of lakes and fjords in the Mid-World that empty out into the great Eastern Sea?  (These will be more prevalent in Book 3, along with the accounts of The Leviathan “Dragon”.)

Certain mystical pools give time segmented visions into the Physical World, which is why the innovations in this world are kind of oddly reminiscent of human technology out of sequence.  The view into the Surface World timeline is non-sequential and scattered, and transient.

The Pan is obsessed with the visions of these pools, because he and other half-person beings like him are also obsessed with getting back into the Surface World they came from, hopefully to become gods in their present form among the seas of humanity that have “forgotten” them and no longer truly venerate them, as they once did when they dreamed more vividly of them in nightmares.  The Half-Men creatures are still savage in that the mind of the beast and the human mind of their former selves battle for their reason, and often they descend into the “animal” mind, before they come back to the awareness of having had their human side being subverted.

And there are Manticores among The Pan’s legion of eclectic creatures.  Literal battle creatures with the body of a lion, the segmented tail of a scorpion and the face and beard of a man.  A kind of living Sphinx, with the insectile tail being its primary assault weapon. These can be destroyed by fire or eaten alive by another beast, if ever given such an improbable chance.

Okay, that’s enough. I’ll shut up.
Gotta go to church now.